by advokate | Feb 16, 2024
When I first saw Vanilla, he came right over and gave me a kiss! There were not that many kisses later, but I did get a few. He must have known he would get a good home. My neighbors the Goodspeeds had horses and two llamas. Both Dick and I loved to stop and see...
by advokate | May 20, 2020
It just seems as if I should be waking up soon, but the dream continues… I never thought this coronavirus would overtake our country and the world. I thought the cases would be caught and isolated and things would go on as they were. How wrong could I be? I...
by advokate | Feb 21, 2020
Every morning I get out early to take care of Star and Vanilla. Soaked beet pulp and grain is fed to Vanilla and Timothy pellets with a wisp of grain to Star with a few apples or carrots and some whole peanuts… (She likes them and there is no sugar.) I like the...
by advokate | Jan 24, 2020
I walked down the long hallway. It was freezing, and it smelled bad. It was the way to the outhouse in the first school I ever went to up in Maine. We lived as far north as you could go before coming to the mountainous forests between Maine and Canada and our town was...
by advokate | Jan 13, 2020
This batik was created starting with a black piece of fabric and after drawing on lines of wax from the tjanting and brush painted areas to save the black. It went through discharge dyeing and many more dyebaths to achieve the soft earth tones. This batik shows an...